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Americans and the Holocaust: What Did Coloradans Know?

Public Program
A nighttime view of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with the Washington Monument in the background. Timothy Hursley

A nighttime view of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with the Washington Monument in the background. Timothy Hursley

During the 1930s and 40s, a wide range of motives, pressures, and fears shaped Americans' responses to Nazism, war, and the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe.

Join United States Holocaust Memorial Museum historian Dr. Edna Friedberg for an exploration of these factors through the lens of local newspapers, historical photographs, and public opinion polls from the era.

Speaker
Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Join the conversation online using #AskWhy and #USHMM.

This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. For more information, please contact calendar@ushmm.org.